US Patent Issued to PayPal on June 30 for "Cross-graph transitions for graph database queries" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,165, issued on June 30, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cross-graph transitions for graph database queries" was invented by Junshi Guo (Shanghai), Pengshan Zhang (Shanghai), Xia Zhang (Shanghai), Kasiviswanathan Natarajan (Fremont, Calif.), Karteek Reddy Chada (Dublin, Calif.) and Yu Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for enabling cross-graph querying in graph databases using a transition operator within a traversal context. In some embodiments, a computing system receives a query containing a transition operator that facilitates transitioning from a first graph to a second graph....